This case-study explores Intercultural Sensitivity (IS) levels of three American English language teachers in Turkey and three Turkish instructors of Turkish in the USA before, during and after a yearlong sojourn in order ...

The aim of this case study was to gain a better understanding of how an initial STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) professional development (PD) program implemented on a specific group of mathematics ...

The main aim of this study was to reveal the awareness of mathematics learning disorder (Dyscalculia) according to the opinions of the primary school teachers. Based on this aim, the general question was expressed as: “To ...

This thesis investigates Turkish students’ autonomous and controlled motivation in preparatory programs for English language and their correlates. Specifically, the study examined (a) to what extent preparatory school ...

This thesis aims at investigating the differences and similarities in English language
teaching of MONE and IB schools in Ankara. Participant MONE schools are state
owned and IB schools are private institutions. This ...

Recent studies have shown that although being aware of the considerable supplementary benefits of field trips for biology lessons in high school, biology teachers complain about difficulties when planning and implementing ...

Health education helps students to promote their mental, social and physical well-being. Health educators follow a specific curriculum for health promotion in the high schools in Turkey. This study compared Turkish national ...

The aim of this study is to examine the writing strategies which were conducted on 164 high school students in Turkish- English bilingual context, for determining the mostly used writing strategies and whether there are ...

Nowadays, language teaching and learning process is an important inseparable part of education due to precipitous progress and development in science and technology. Thus, learning different foreign languages has emerged ...

The purpose of the study was to investigate Turkish students’ misconceptions about
general science subjects. Variables such as gender, school type, grade, age, and
school level were employed in the present study. Descriptive ...

Classroom management is an important issue, especially for new teachers. However,
classroom management is not given enough importance in teacher training. Since
most of the classroom management training is theoretical, ...

People need scientific literacy to keep up with and to understand continuing developments and changes in our modern world. In Turkey, especially for the people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, scientific literacy level ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the issues as well as conflicts of gender in
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with the aim of providing lines of arguments as
guidelines to inform critical literacy instruction. To ...

Some high schools in Turkey provide medium of instruction in English.
Mathematics, science and social science courses are taught in English in these
schools. This study explored attitudes, beliefs and challenges of high ...

The present study aimed to investigate the role of physical activity on high school students’ academic performance. To reach this aim, three groups of students compared in this study in terms of academic achievement (Grade ...

Oceans have an important role in regulating climate, oxygen and carbon dioxide
cycles. Therefore ocean literacy carries an imperative role in terms of
understanding and communicating one of the major regulators of our ...

This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ need supportive instructional behaviors (i.e., relatedness support and provision of structure) and different types of student engagement (i.e., behavioral, emotional, ...

The effectiveness of real world connections (RWC) in teaching is well accepted in
the mathematics education community, however, little research has attended how and
why to use RWC in mathematics. Additionally, there is ...

The 2013 official national curriculum published by the Turkish Ministry of Education formally required high school mathematics teachers to actively incorporate computer software in their teaching. The primary purpose of ...

In inclusive education, every child is supported in such way that no child falls behind. For this purpose, inclusive education practices unite students with individual differences that are in the same educational environment. ...